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The History of Deaf Culture
Deaf people have long been discriminated against. In 1000 BC, their rights were denied due to Hebrew Law. Those who were Deaf could not own property, testify in court, couldn’t participate in temples, and even had different laws for marriage. This is just the beginning, from 427-237 BC Plato believed that all intelligence was present when someone is born. Because of this, Plato believed that all potential was there, it just was not apparent. As a result of this theory, deaf people were seen as unintelligent humans that could not form ideas or have any comprehension of language (Hunter).
Yet another philosopher, Aristotle, had a similar opinion of those who were Deaf. He believed that one could not learn without …show more content…

One opened in New York in 1818, Pennsylvania in 1820, Kentucky in 1823, Ohio in 1829, and Virginia in 1839. Even a deaf state was proposed in the 1850’s by John Flournoy. He wanted those who were deaf to be in control of their own government so that they could regulate schools and minimize prejudice (Hunter).
Another step for the Deaf community was the creation of the Gallaudet University in 1864 for those who wanted to go farther in their education with ASL (Smith, Ken, Ella). Today it is still one of the best colleges for Deaf education (Hunter). Unfortunately, after all of these amazing things happening for the Deaf community there is a sudden adverse reaction to sign language. It starts with the International Congress on the Education of the Deaf conference in Milan.
In 1880, Italy voted to do away with sign language education and to instead enforce oral education (Smith, Ken, Ella). Oral education was seen as superior to ASL, and the only country that disagreed with this movement was the United States (Hunter). Deaf teachers were dismissed as they were not able to give a proper hearing education (Smith, Ken, Ella). In the next forty years, oral education grew by an astounding number at eighty percent, becoming the number one method of teaching deaf people. This method continued for a very long time, one hundred fifty years. ASL was still tolerated and the deaf community still used it, however because it was seen inferior it caused a negative view of Deaf culture and the people (Smith, Ken,

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